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Bill Gates Is Beginning To Dream the Thorium Dream

Posted by Unknown on from the bill-just-wants-a-vat-of-molten-salt dept.

Daniel_Stuckey writes "TerraPower, the Gates-chaired nuclear power company, has garnered the most attention for pursuing traveling wave reactor tech, which runs entirely on spent uranium and would rarely need to be refueled. But Terrapower just quietly announced that it's going to start seriously exploring thorium power, too."

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  1. Re:Finally! by almitydave · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rumor has it the new thorium reactors will put out 640 kW, which oughta be enough for everybody.

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